The Federal #4

CONTENTS

Antanas Gerlikas introduces some of the words
An afternoon at Algirdas Šeskus and Milda Šeškuviene’s with Aurime Aleksandraviciute, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Raimundas Malašauskas, Elena Narbutaite and Jonas Žakaitis
Jonas Žakaitis talks with Ron Eglash
Chris Fitzpatrick talks with Francis Heylighen
Elena Narbutaite’s main idea

COLOPHON

Editors: Aurime Aleksandraviciute, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Jonas Žakaitis
Copy editor: Josephine Baker-Heaslip
Translations: Jurij Dobriakov
Editorial assistance: Ruta Juneviciute, Viktorija Rybakova
Published: May 2013
Cover: Transit (2012), an open file by Gintaras Didžiapetris
Designed by: Joseph Miceli & Lina Ozerkina (alfa60 / friends make books)
Format: 16 x 24 cm, 42 pages, soft cover, stapled, B&W offset printing
Printed by: Petro ofsetas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Number of copies: 300

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE:

Gintaras Didžiapetris is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Ron Eglash is a cyberneticist and ethno-mathematician based in New York, US.
Chris Fitzpatrick is a curator and director of Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium.
Antanas Gerlikas is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Francis Heylighen is a cyberneticist based in Brussels, Belgium.
Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator based in Brussels, Belgium.
Elena Narbutaite is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Algirdas Šeškus is an artist and bioenergetics practicioner based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Milda Šeškuviene is an art historian based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Viktoras Vaicikauskas is a physicist and engineer based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Jonas Žakaitis and Aurime Aleksandraviciute are currently in the middle of Oo, www.oo-oo.co

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The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions has suddenly demanded that artists become more imaginative in the way that they organise themselves.
If labels such as ‘alternative’, ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organised art scene
that emerged in the late 1990s, the separatist position implied by the use of these terms has
been moderated during the intervening years. This new anthology of accounts from the front line includes contributions by artists, as well as their institutional counterparts, that provide a fascinating observation of the art world as matrix of interconnected positions where the balance of power and productivity constantly shifts.

Featuring Julie Ault,Maibritt Borgen, Céline Condorelli & Johan Frederik Hartle, Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen Ekaterina Degot, Charles Esche & David Riff, Barnaby Drabble, Jonas Ekeberg, Linus Elmes, Juan A Gaitán, Abdellah Karroum, Livia Pancu, Jan Verwoert, What, How & For Whom/WHW

Author: Stine Hebert & Anne Szefer Karlsen (Eds.)
Publisher: Open Editions
Language: English
Pages: 166
ISBN: 978-0-949004-17-8

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Papertrail #2

The second installment of Papertrail events will be held this Saturday 25th May.

MOTTO
KNOWLEDGE EDITIONS
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SMALLTIME BOOKS / HEAVYTIME
PERIMETER BOOKS
SERPS ZINE

10 – 16 hr

Magic Johnston
27 – 29 Johnston Street
Collingwood, Melbourne
3066 VIC

Year Magazine 2013

“YEAR is the annual yearbook showcasing a subjective, abstract, moving scene. The third issue of YEAR is, again, an almanac, a programme, a diary and a lot of glam shit handsome gorgeous terrific “blah blah blah” gathering together more than 85 prospective and retrospective contributions. Theory, poetry and narration mingle with the visual in what unravels, page after page – a landscape full of details and perspectives. On the one hand it is a printed exhibition, on the other a garden hosting an experimental barbecue with dead lipstick and redneck zombies, plus a lake and a few books. Can you smell that? Where does this come from, huh? And discussions behind every bush and column.”

THE CONTRIBUTORS
Painting : Anthea Hamilton

Cover photo : Fabrice Dermience
Damien Airault, Shane Anderson, Sylvie Arnaud, Isabelle Arthuis, Sven Augustijnen, Patrick Bobilin, Francisco Camacho, Ellen Cantor, CAREFOUR, Gabriella Ciancimino, Contour, Boris Crack, François Curlet, Mathis Collins, Carles Congost, Anna Davinski Foundation, Isabelle de Visscher-Lemaitre, Federico del Vecchio, DSCTHK, Etablissement d’en Face, Jean-Yves Evrard, Tatiana Fernandez Echeverri, France Fiction, FLINT-FUYT, André Fortino, Michel François, Charles Garcin, Jill Gasparina, Mathis Gasser, Armand Gatti, Laetitia Gendre, Adel Ghezal, Karl Holmqvist, Huz & Bosshard, Vincent Honoré / Ben Cain, Hotel Charleroi, Jean Paul Jacquet, Benjamin Jaubert, Renaud Jerez, Agata Jastrzabek & Laszlo Umbreit, Ilja Karilampi, Kim Kim Gallery, Lucas Knipscher, Estelle Lecaille, Erwan Mahéo, David Malek, Fiona McKay, Estelle Nabeyrat, Michelle Naismith, Lise Nelleman, Bavo Olbrechts, Douglas Park, Gianandrea Poletta, Carl Palm, Yann Perol, Guillaume Robert, Viktor Rosdahl, John Russell, Gio Black Peter, Fabrice Pichat, Emilie Pitoiset, Sten Are Sandbeck, Timothy Stappaert, Jaro Straub, Peter Sutherland, Fleur van Muiswinkel, Benjamin Valenza, France Valliccioni, Joelle Van Autreve, Lauren VHS, Wepion.

Language : English, French, Dutch

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Asterios Polyp. David Mazzucchelli. Pantheon Books.

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?
As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.
In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.
Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel

Language : English
Size: 20 x 27 cm

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Plethora Magazine Issue 1

Language : English
Pages : 51
Size : 50.5 x 70.5 cm

70 €
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Misha Hollenbach, Ben Frost, Dirty Beaches, Greg Hunt, Clemens Behr, Pond, The act of killing, Robert Rickhoff, Tim Plamper, Kendell Geers, Matt Furie.

Language: English
Size: 23 × 26
Binding: Softcover

Price: €6.90

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Where The Birds Used To Sing. Zoé Beausire. Self-published.

21 x 29,7 cm
24 pages
Unbound

13 €
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First anthology of Rosemarie Trockel’s collages, which are a key for a difracted and non-academic view on the whole work of this German artist known internationaly.
Rosemarie Trockel’s collages form an important and central component of the retrospective exhibitions “Flagrant Delight”, held in 2012-2013 at Wiels (Brussels), Culturgest (Lisbon) and Museion (Bolzano), and “Verflüssigung der Mutter” (Deliquescence of the Mother), at the Kunsthalle Zurich in 2010. These collages are the subject of this publication, which takes a more detailed and in-depth look at them through a comprehensive body of illustrations of the 100 or so collages Trockel has produced to date, together with commissioned essays that address specifically this (still relatively unexplored) aspect of her extensive and multifaceted work.

Language: English-French
Pages: 256
Size: 22,5 x 24,5 cm
Binding: Hardcover

Price: €41.00
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